The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 7, 1934, Page 4

Kansas City, Mo. « _ Buclosed in this letter is one dollar. | w Send me whatever ¢@ will p 1 the January 6, tenth anniversa tion, as I am going to ® workers that are working ® houses 10 to 12 hours a day for one ™ dollar at the hardest kind of work. & 1 am a world war veteran. I have| ® been on.two bonus marches to Wash- | * ington. At Washingt they told us} to go back to cur home town andj Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1934 -\Readers Tell How They |1. Miller Shoe Worker Tells How Boss Pel a ee es ce ae, | (get, . . ow t art on Workers ee Dally Worker Piled Up Fake Vote tor A.F.L. Union|7, gayonne ae tT HOUSE WORKER} | in heey Tghtine, m= Dress. Worker Who | Hired Many gaae Bev ‘and Ciel Just Before the eer ee ‘or of edi- | we would be taken care of. That is the way it is coming about. I have| been here in Kansas City, Mo., my home town, for one year, and all I have is lots of hard work and no pay. If a single veteran asks for anything, they will send you to the “Helping Hand.” —C. K. NEWS FROM ALASKA Juneau, Alaska, Dear Comrade:— | Received your letter which you write us of your reports. All Juneau workers take great interest in the 10th Anniversary of ithe Daily Worker. Also the Juneau Uni greatly appreciates all the worker: of Juneau who mobilized to support our revolutionary struggles such a the 16th Anniversary cf the Soviet Union. Also Alaskan workers take very kind interest to recognize the peace policy between the United | States and Soviet Russia. | We had a mass meeting and dance} given by Juneau workers. All the} workers celebrated from 7 p. m. to) 3 a, m. in the morning. } ™a e~ohrated he-e in Juneau | the recognition of the Soviet Union by tie United States. We had aj great parade. We carried red flags} and all the workers marched on the | business streets singing revolutionary songs. | We collected a considerable sum of money for the Daily and have already sent $75. Comradely yours, —i. M. PATRONIZE DAILY WOKER ADVERTISERS NEW YORK.—I am not a member | of any political party. At one time I was a member of the Socialist Party. But I have leng realized the | role of the S. P. in aiding the capi- | talist system in their attack against | workers, in America as well as they | did in Germany. | Being a worker, and knowing what | the Communist Party is doing for| the workers in their every-day strug- | gle for more bread and against the | misery that the bosses, with the aid | | be of society. And, ondly, will help the D. W. exception, we must always Y to aid our paper at any time and in any w Long A WORKER CORRESPONDENT TELLS HOW HE DISTRIBUTES THE DAILY Staten Island, N. Y. Dear Comrades: The article in the Jan. 1 issue about Re n’s is fine. ystem of spreading the WORKERS ¢ KEEP THE ! “4 LY GOING VICTORIES STRvestes PROGRAMS know their system of hiring and firing help, in fact all their methods of doing business. Whenever any of my articles ap- pear in the Daily Worker, for in- stance the Roulston article, I go to 13th St. and get a bundle of left- over “Dailies,” mark off my write-up with heavy crayon and deliver or mail to 20 or 25 of their store man- agers. They will see that there is one paper on our side. Many may subscribe and get courage to write. Roulston and his superintendent, Ross, here are a foxy bunch. They will not keep a man in a store very long. The dumber a man is the bet- ter they like it. JOHN KRYZACK. ANNIVERSARY ISSUE EASILY SOLD Cocur d'Alene, Idaho. Dear Comrades: The tenth anniversary edition is great. Our section sold 115 copies with lit& effort, and it is impossible to estimate the favorable sentiment it has created among the workers for the Party. All issues are good and getting better. AN (COURAGING REPORT FROM TAMPA Tampa, Fla. of their government and the c>rrupt |Dear Comrades: union officials, are forcing of the| We have received many encoura7- entire working class, I must recognize |ing reports from the subscribers to the only paper which represents the |the Daily Worker, telling us how well interests of the workers, The Daily |Pleased they are with the improve- Worker, and I will at any time go|ments made. The language is simple out of my way to assure the existence |and understandable and the whole of such a paper as the Daily Worker, | paper presents a much neater ap- It is for the interest of all work- ers to patronize advertisers of the Daily Worker for two reasons. The | powerful weapon for first and main reason is to show the jorganization. We are enclosing $3, bosses that we are not indifferent, lwhich has been contributed, CONDUCTED BY HELEN LUKE Today, alack snd alas, has to be} “All of which leads me up to the Apology Day, and we make haste to| point about the story really belong- apologize first of all, for that. How- | ing to my colleague, Bill Dunne, who ever, the errors, and sins of omis-|says that the experience actually sion and commission, piled up so| happened to him. Where he swiped high last week that we can no longer | the story, however, I don’t know...” Jook the other way. We naturally expect a few typographical errors Can You Make ‘Em Yourself? occasionally, and when the quota- tion marks in our essay on Gretta | Pattern 1767 is available in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 Palmers’ essay were slightly scrambled, | and 44. Size 16 takes 2% yards 54 (dis)crediting us with some of Miss | Palmer's inanities, we forbore to| squawk about it. inch fabric and 34 yard 39 inch con- trasting. Illustrated step-by-step sew- ing instructions included, Daily Worker readers, we figured. could easily tell who said which, and ere quick to detect a superfluous z or x here and there and to realize that, once: in awhile a line of type | gets in in the wrong plac | Sort of thing is all in the day’s work. | But oh, oh, oh! What happened | to my pie I baked so carefully! Don't ask. When Friday’s pie got inserted i) posing was assured that Saturday's pie was correctly set up. But I saw Saturday’s paper —ow! & headache—not for the bosses, but for me. Our new readers must have figured us to be pretty cannibalistic vegetarians, and Com- vade Swetlowa must have wondered what the h—1. We hereby apologize most abjectly and promise it won't happen again, even if have to stop making pie. (Please copy, you HOMEWRECKERS in the composing room.) Also our recipe for lemon sauce ‘was pretty generous with the lemon . This one’s on me and I'm es the confession carefully here in the middle of the column in the <5 will notice it much. our infinite regret a notification @ lecture at the American Youth » Feb. 2, on the subject. g Birth Control Be Legalized?” ‘was received too late for us to insert " @ notice of it. We should have been too glad to give this lecture , but the feature pages are elosed before the other (news) pages; copy from the cdlumnists must, with faze exceptions, be set up a couple in advance, So we ask ocm- who have notices of special in- to women to be sure to mail ‘to us several days before they to appear. ; hever rains but it pours. Just thought the slate pretty well |, Sender Garlin dashes in with following announcement: : § esa iH pearance. The comrades here feel that the Daily is becoming a very agitation and ee ee ps, judg’ | send FIFTEEN CENTS (15e) in vegetarian story in Friday's column. coins or stamps (coins preferred) for But ever since the revolutionary press took the pants off VY. F. Cal- yerton ‘for being a plaziarist this Anne Adams pattern. Writé plainly name, address and style num- ber. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE. Address orders to Daily Worker, {among other things) I've been very “ip about swiping stuff without Pattern Department, 243 West 17th Street, New York City. uN | AsksBack Wages . | Is Terrorized | (By a Needle Worker Correspondent) | NEW YORK —I work in a dress {shop run by a man named Irving at }169 W. 21st St. who uses terrorist | |methods to intimidate the workers. | | He curses and beats them and if they |try to defend themselves, he threat- jens to call the police. When I started to work there he promised to pay me 20 cents a gar- ment on piece work. Now he says \Ill get only 15 cents. He already} Election Who Didn’t Know Anything About Unions By a Shoe Worker Correspondent | the Boot and Shoe Sell-out Union, LONG ISLAND CITY.—The 1.|1 saw all the relatives eae fore- conga? g - Zone man and the foreladies. ey came Miller Shoe Co. held an bespenad 6°) the factory to vote. With all these under the National Labor Board de-| tricks Miller got the majority to vote cision on Feb. 2, 1934. From what I|for the Boot and Shoe, against our can see, it was all under the con-| union, the United Shoe and Leather trol of the racketeers. Just before | Workers Union, the union all the the election, Miller hired a lot of| workers really want. young girls and boys, who didn’t; But we stand strong because the know anything about the different| votes we got are all from the most unions, He gave these jobs just for| important, and best workers in the @ week, and made them all vote for! shop. | ewes me $46 for work I did, and he| weenie acess |The NRA Protects- He steals from| | me. if I ask for it. the wages of all workers who slave | to make a profit for him. | I belong to the Industrial Union | which I joined years ago because I| didn’t want to join a union run by| |tacketeers as the other union is. I| jam a father of four children who are | | Datly Worker at the present time, 1| HOt Working and this boss is causing) By a Shoe Worker Correspondent | have been aworker for Roulston and|™me and my family much suffering. EDITOR’S NOTE:—In a union- | ized shop such things could not happen. This worker is a member of the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union, which is endeavor- ing to bring about union control in all needle shops, and which, in a shop under its own control, would Protect this worker. The obvious duty of all need'e workers is to pitch in and help bring about union | conditions In the needle shops | W. I. U. Get in touch with this organization at 131 W. 2Ist St. New York City. | How the A. F. L. Is A Sell-Out Machine (By a Worker Correspondent) | CLAREMONT, N. H.—Here is a/ story about the A. F. of L. | The woolen mills here had a meet- | ing, and now they have an A. F. of | L. A violin player I know said that | he joined it and I told him it was| @ sell-out machine. He was some- what taken aback. A number of the | workers are French, | Talso wrote last month about how the poor children were used in our schools. The girls must have a gym suit. Those who are not able to afford one hang their heads in shame. Just becauce they are poor they take advantage of them. . . Editor’s Note: The recent silk strike, in which the United To-tile Workers (A. F. of L.) leaders like McMahcn held back the New Enz- Jand silk workers from striking in sympathy with the Paterson. work- ers until very late in the strike, shows which side, the workers’ or the bosses’, the A. F, of L. leaders are on. Notice the actions of A. F. of L. leaders in every strike. You will see that they try to stop the struggle from spreading, that they try to keep out other workers who | want to help the strikers, and they try to teach the workers not to rely on the heln of other workers, but to rely on the bosses’ covern- ment, on Roosevelt and the N.R.A. If they lead a strike they do so because the workers insist on strik- ing even without them, and he- cause these A, F. of L. lexders want to make sure of retting big salaries whether the strike is won or lost. They therefore try to get the strik- ers beck as oufckly as nossth'e, with the least trouble for the bosses, even if it meens losinz the strike, so that the boss will help them (the A. F. of L. leaders) when it comes to collecting dues from the workers. Workers can stop this only by forming strong rank and file com- mittees, and they can get the help, in the woolen mills, of a union that because it is controlled by the rank and file, the National Textile Workers’ Union, The difefrence between the Na- tional Textile Workers’ Union and the A. F. of L. union is well illus- trated in the article on this page under the leadership of the N. T, | istered a complaint. The Miles Shoe Co. ‘The next day during lunch I went BROOKLYN, N. ¥.—On Priday,|(2 {he NRA. and demanded pro- 5 . | tection. Feb. 2, I was fired for protesting} against conditions in my place, tha] eee ee. cat Iw Miles Shoe Ca, 7% Varick Street, | ».. at ational, OG tothe teak Brooklyn, | fired unconditionally. Up to the pres- |ent I have not been reinstated. The The Saturday before that a notice| R.A, has done nothing. | had been posted up which stated| that the employes were to work 48 hours instead of 40 hours. Tuesday I went to the N.R.A. headquarters to |inquire whether a new code was | signed. I was informed that the employes had no right to change the hours of work. Whereupon I reg- ie —D. 8. ° Editor’s Note:—The only protec- tion a worker has against being fired for his militancy is in the organized strength of his fellow workers, Help in getting the workers organized to fight against the extra eight hours and against dismissals can be obtained by applying to the United Shoe Work- ers Union, 77 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Thursday I was called into the} | office of the shop, and given an ultimatum by the bosses either to stop complaining or else— Speed-Up Makes Hamilton Dye Shop Look Like Race-Track But Workers Find It Useless to Get Action from A. F. of L. Chairman (By a Textile Worker Correspondent) PATERSON, N. J.—The Hamilton mittee of both unions to take up all the shop grievances. Then there has never sold out to the bosses, | | Dye Shop in Ri ‘ide has a speed-up jthat would remind you of a race- track. A worker said that he had ) all he could do to keep up with the frames. When this worker was asked whet the chairman was doing about jit, this was his answer: “First of all | the workers are in the A. F, of L. | The chairman is like the rest of the A. F. of L..chairmen. All they think | about is dues. | This worker said thet the N. R A. visited this dye shop and told the| | bosses that they could not do more) | than 400 pieces a day, unless he put {on another shift, but he did not say | anything abovt the bosses rushing | the workers all the day. | “The workers in the Hamilton Dye | Shop shovld get in touch with the | National Textile Workers’ Union or- |; ganizer, and join the N.T.W.U., to | show these bosses they will not stand for this speed-up, because the N. T. W. U. does not take dictation from the he National Textile Workers’ Union has the February edition of the Paterson Dye Wi r Bulletin ready for sale. All silk and dye workers should get this edition be- cause it is their bulletin, and do not, forget the only workingman’s news- paver, the “Daily Worker.” You can get both the Bulletin and the Worker at the Workers’ Center, 222 Paterson St., N. J. The workcrs in the Weidemann ‘plant are weitint for Frank Ryan, | the new A. F. of L. chairman, to do something for the workers. He hasn’t done a thing for those who have been laid off, and the workers who have ‘been laid off are not hack to work, |as the business agent of the A. F. of |L. told the workers in a Weidemann | A. F. of L. meeting. Ryan, why don’t you have the A. F, of L. workers elect a committee and the N. T. W. U. elect a com- mittee, and have one big shop com- by the worker correspondent from Paterson on conditions in the Ham- iltton Dye Shop. would be an all-union shop, because it would be a united front with all the workers. A Weidemann worker who was laid off, and went back for his last pay, was asked if he wanted to pay 60 cents, and before the month was up he received this letter from the company: “We iind that it will be impos- sible for us to carry your life in- surance, under ovr group plan, efter January, 1934. We are en- closing a stamped, addressed enve- lope, and would apnreciate the re- | turn of your policy for cancellation. “Yours truly, “UNITED PIECE DYE WORKS, “Weidemann Division, “A. Cunningham, “Employment Servics Dept.” Piece Dye Works have made it pos- sible under the Group Plan for you to have this form of insurance. We wish to take this occasion to con- gratulate our employes in their co- operation in helping to protect their families and themselves. We will feel certain you will be more than satisfied with this insurance. “THE UN'TED PJECE WORKS, “Theodore Boettger, Pres.” The National Textile Workers’ Union is having trade union classes every Sunday morning at 10 o'clock for workers who want to know more about trade unionism and the class struggle, and for silk and dye work- ers who want to learn the difference between the A. F. of L. and N. T. W. U. Register now at 222 Paterson St. NOTE ‘We publish letters from textile, needle, shoe and leather workers every Wednesday. Workers in those industries are urged to write us of their conditions of work, and of And in his policy it is stated) thusly: “To our employes: The United their struggles to organize, Get Cee ee, aries it | Speed-Up Worse In Ashtabula Dress Shop of S. Korach By a Needle Worker Correspondent ASHTABULA, O.—Everything is hotsy-totsy in the S. Korach dress; sweatshop in Ashtabula. The A. F. of L. union, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, stepped in to clean up—and how. The strike was called amidst N.R.A. ballyhoo and Section 7-a fairy tales of a heaven of good wages. Each worker put up cash for A. F. of L. protec- tion—they are getting it, too. The scabs are all back to work, the wages are about the same, it is a closed shop (and why not?). Each worker paying his 35 cents a week—for God only knows what. Speed-up is worse than ever. Now that the union has the thing} all sewed up tight, the latest piece! of devittry this bunch pulled is that union attendance is to be compul- sory, a fine of 25 cents each time! you don’t care to hear the A. F. of L. brand of bull. Some of the girls are waking up to the fact that it is dues the cut- throats want. They all belong to the union now, not because they like it, but because they are not yet able to see their way out. R. and E. Novelty Shop Pays $10-$12 for 48 Hour Week By a Needle Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—I happened to pick up the Daily Worker the other day. I see that you have a Workers Cor- respondence Page. Will you please print this letter telling about the conditions of work at the R. & E. Novelty Manufacturing Co, 37-39 W. 28th St. New York City. 1) The wage an average operator gets for a 48 hour week is $10-$12. 2) The finishers are piece-workers. They start working early in morning, work through their lunch hour till 6:30, and then take some work home to do. The result is a wage of about $9. This wage lasts about a month, Then follow three months of unem- ployment. 3) There aren’t enough radiators in this place. The workers in the back get their heat from a gas range. This makes their heads ache. The gas range is also dangerous be- cause the shop uses a great deal of paper and benzine. 4)The toilet is very dirty. The floor is full of urine. There is no window. There is no toilet paper. The wash basin and the towel are filthy. This is the dump the workers have to use when they want to drink water or smoke. 5) Joe, the foreman, is a nervous man. He is always on the move— he walks fast, talks fast, yells fast, and works very very hard with the young Ww ‘s in the shop. He also spies on them from behind a curtain. Often he pukes out jokes highly in- | sulting to the women and non-Jewish workers. The workers must not al- low him to bully them, 6) The errand boys are forced to go out in rain and snow without an unbrella. They are often sent out on errands which make them work over- time. While the boys and girls work, the boss forces the errand boys to sweep the shop. All the dust goes on the face and into the lungs of the workers. The boss ought to hire a sweeper for the p!ace—to do the work before or after work. 7) The workers have to sit on very hard chairs. If they don’t want to get all blistered up—they have to buy their ovn cushions. What ought the workers to do to improve these conditions? see sates Editor’s Note: The Needle Trades | Workezs Industrial Union, 131 West 28th Street, will give this worker and other workers in the shop ‘advice on taking steps to organize the workers against these condi- tions. A grievance committee might be formed to take up an imme- diate condition which can be rec- tified quickly, and on the basis of this victory the workers can be or- ganized into a wider group to fight for bigger demands. (By a Needle Worker Correspondent) BROOKLYN, N. ¥.—On Jan. 3, 1 was called into the grievanée board of Local 22, of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and suspended for three months. There were others in the local treated like me. One example is that of a left winger, a@ member of the executive board. For daring to bring charges against the manager of the local, Zimmerman, they suspended him from the executive board until the elections would be over in the local. Another case is that of Abe Skol- nick, who was very active in the union, going out in committees to stop over- time work, a very militant worker and also chairman of his shop. He was suspended from the union for six months because he dared to talk back to Nelson, another Lovestonite hench- man. Then I was the next victim, as I am active in the left wing group, being also chairman of my shop. I was suspended for three months, which means until over the elections. This punishment I was given because I told the workers my opinion on pick- eting, and how a class conscious worker should act. Why do they use this method of expelling members? Not long ago Lovestone Leaders in Dress Local Prepare for Elections by Expulsions of Militant Members there were elections in Local 1, cloak- makers union, and there the Love- stonite united with the rest of the reactionary forces and took off the ballot all the left wing candidates. The political committee of the Love- stone group decided that this was soo much of a bad job. The work- ers saw too clearly. Therefore the nolitical committee decided to use a different method in Local 22 (a scientific method) by calling the ac- tive left wingers on flimsy charges and suspending them from the union until after the elections, To show what I said above is cor- rect, one may read the resolution of the Local 22 executive, in reference to the Local 9 expulsion. There they state that the charges brought by the Tt. L. G. W. U. chiefs against Local 9 are justified, but they are against the decision of expelling all the left wing leaders because it looks like an rection maneuver, and therefore it is harmful. The workers may see it. In that resolution they also state, “In the interests of the unions, each crime committed by any member or officer of the union should immedi- ately be acted on without waiting until a day before the elections in order to remove any political group off the election ballot.” Here we can clearly see how these renegades teach the bureaucrats how to remove mili- tant workers from the union, and that is what they are doing right now in Local 22, Exposed Betrayers But the left wingers do not sleep either. Through leaflets, bulletins, resolutions to the executive board against expulsion by workers in the name of their shops, and meetings we exposed these betrayers of the in- tereste of the dressmakers. I appealed against the decision in my case, and I brought the workers of my shop to this committee. Sume of the committee members objected to the presence of the workers and pronounced it as a demonstration on my part. I told them that I brought the whole shop of workers of which I am chairman so that they should know that I have been suspended not because of bad union behaviour, but. because I expressed that if I were in a picket line, I would first help the strikers in picketing and then Everybody that is active in the union knows that the Lovestonites work hand in hand with the president of the I. L. G. W. U., Mr. Dubinsky. Through mass pressure, Dubinsky was forced to give a hearing to a committee of the expelled leadership of Local 9, although we knew before that he would only approve of what his committee has decided. Seeing this, the Lovestonite Zimmerman had to act quickly so as not to be seen as more reactionary than his presi- dent of the I. L. G. W. U. From all this the workers can learn what mass action in both cases on the part of the workers can do. The Lovestonites try their best, even strong arm methods, to force their rule upon the members, but the workers showed at the last section meetings of the local what they think of the Lovestonite administration and in every case the vote was for the left wing. Workers, dressmakers, be on the watch against these betrayers of the candidates of the needle trades ask what union it is, or what union they belong to, and because of this mass pressure, with the workers of my shop present, and being unable to prove otherwise, they had to dis- miss my case, I cannot say that this alone has forced these fakers to act that way. workers. Fight together with the left wing group for better conditions and democracy in the union. K. ABRAMOWITZ, Member of Local 22, I.L.G.W.U. (Signature Required). By L, ANDREWS ‘The Hudson County section of the New Jersey district has experiences both good and bad in its task to carry! out the Open Letter. Of svecic] value is the work of the Party in the Bayonne Radiator strike. | The main issues in the plant which | gave rise to the strike situation —the cutting of the working we | four days, and the demand of the) workers for higher wages. The Party | began its work late. Not until the very eve of the strike did we beco! aware of the unrest existing amon; the workers. Not until a day bef the strike did the Party take the ii tiative and call an open mass meeting. The existence of a company union in! the plant further aroused the indig- | nation of the workers. The answer of the company to the demands for- the leadership of the Party and the industrial union, was the announce ment of a lockout. Strike was de clared, all of the 1,100 employed in the plant walking out. | The company union delegates were | able to take control of the movement | and convinced the strikers to accept} the American Federation of Labor because no revolutionary organization | existed in the shop previous to the) strike. These misleaders of the com- pany union tried to bring forward the argument that whereas the A. F.| of L. was a legal organization recog- nized by the bosses, the Steel and/ Metal Workers Industrial Union was} “too militant” and would not be rec- | ognized because it was led by Com-)| munists. Work of Party Wins Strikers’ Confidence Continuing to carry on independent activity, the Party watched every move in the strike, and worked out its tactics on the basis of the develop- ments. When the company and the A. F. of L. tried to break the strike by accusing the Communists of splitting the ranks of the workers, our reply} was an exposure of the treacherous) tactics of the strike leadership—the | failure to organize mass picketing, the | lack of rank and file control of the strike, and the discarding of the con- crete demands against speedup. When the N, R. A. held up negotiations with | the excuse that half of the strikers| supported the Industrial union and the other half the A. F. of L., an open communication was sent to all the strikers and the A. F, of L. local leaders, proposing the organization of an independent union. These local misleaders were silent, but at the same time made an agreement with the city government to remove even the small number of pickets remain- ing at the plant. This open betrayal) was exposed by the Party not only in words, but scveral mass picket lines} were organized which brouztht militant features into the strike. Two| strikers were arrested on one of these occasions, and by bringing in the In- ternationa Labor Defense, the revolu- tionary leadership was strengthened. } As a result of this work, the strikers | were released. Shop Nucleus is Organized | From the very start, the question of recruiting into the Party was made a necessity. Shortly after the strike started, a shop nucleus was set up. Thru individual agitation and mass work this nucleus has grown. Forty- eight strikers have joined the Com- | munist Party nucleus to date. A mass gathering was held under the aus- pices of the Party for the special pur- pose of mobilizing support for the strike. At every meeting of strikers the_Party program is explained, and the strike connected with the struggle against capitalism as a whole. We showed the workers that no struggle can be successful from the viewpoint of the workingclass as a whole with- Hudson County Section Relates Experiences In the Light of the Open Letter mutated by the mass meeting under| The lea was dev Party m under co. P. hin of the shop nucleus 1 from among the new < ey were joining a which they rightfully be- vas their own Party, and , eagerly joined. These membe: ie the most active, the ost mil nt in the strike. Lessons for the Party in Hudson County work of the Party in the Radiator strike shows that only by organiz'ng and leading struggles can the Party make its program known to the workers. The Party in all its units and nuclei must begin to see in p. e What it means when we say that we are “on the verge of a cond round of wars and of revolue ion.” The tasks which this makes ary must be seriously con- d. We must bring forward more d more steadily the role of the Party as an organizer and leader of the struggles for the everyday needs of the worker and for the struggle against capitalism as a whole. In Hudson County not all of those who are members of the Party have ini- tiative and can be depended upon to put the program of the Party actively into life. Therefore, the majority of the workers in the County do not know of the Party. As soon as the workers see the Party in action, and our program is explained to them in the light of the struggle which they are engaged in, they come into the Party eagerly. Our task now is to develop the membership to be able to bring the program of the Party to the workers wherever they are. Each member must become an individual agitator, bringing the message of the Party daily before workers with whom he has contact. Our task is to create leadership for the section from among the best workers; and to maintain those members which we recruit into the Party, The fear of recruiting boldly into the Party must be broken down, and the theories which are rty to | longed they will The |used to support this fear must be rooted out once for all. The conscious need to learn—to develop theoretically—must be instilled into every Party member. And the section leedership which often only speaks of doing this, must begin to put it into practise by devel- oping theoretically itself. Above all is it necessary to kill the idea, conscious or unconscious, that socialism comes naturally — auto- matically—from the very nature of the class struggle. It is this idea of spontaneity which feeds the lack of theoretical study. In the words of Engels, “Socialism, having become a science, demands the same treatment. as every science—it must be studied.” Only by daily participation, organiza- tion and leadership of the class struggle, together with constant study will we have a Party which emerges stronger in influence and in numbers from every battle, every skirmish of the class war—a Party able to sooner fulfill the task of winning the majority of the workingclass, JOIN THE Communist Party || 35 B. 12th STREET, N. Y. C. || Please send me more informa- || cion on the Communist Party. Name . Street cut the leadership of the Communist Party. |} city if ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Thumb Sucking West and East.—The fact that your sister’s child and your own, suck their thumbs, is a mere coincidence. We do not believe that thumb-sucking has a sexual significance, the Freud- ian conception, notwithstanding. Your California sister can get “Bo-Pecp Cuffs,” at 308 Sea View Ave., Pied- mont, Calif. You can get them at Best & Co. and at Gimbel’s These cuffs are made of a heavy grade of “plastacele” which is easy to clean, transparent, and durable. large enough for the child’s whole hand. Menstrual Superstitions D. V., Bennington, Vt. — Volumes have been written on the silly, odd ond funny superstitions about mens- truation. What sense is there to re- peat such hodge-podge of ignorance? The popular proverbs are contradic- tory, in this, as in all other subjects. Yes, it is true that the Talmud looks upon the flow as unpure and teaches that intercourse during menstruction brings forth epileptics, cretins and lepers; but Rabbi Meyer, in the same book (Nidah, p, 31) praises menstrua- tion as a useful and beneficial phe- nomenon, a sort of natural matri- monial holiday, from which the wife emerges as a renovated bride. . Professor Mike Gold on Constipation Martha of Canarsia.—We did not comment on Mike Gold's article on constipation because it was so perfect that any praise on our part would have been like painting the lily. It is lucky that this column “ isk They are | By PAUL LUTTINGER, MD. —,——_______- won the competition; otherwise we should have been terribly embar- rassed; our poetic talent being at its lowest ebb just now. It is easier for | Mike Gold to become a good physi- cian than for us to shine, even as a fifth rate poet. Physicians can be trained; but inspired bards like Michael Gold are born, perhaps once in a century! If you doubt it, re- read his poem on Tom Mooney. It wes a gracious gesture for Mike to write the article on constipation. And with all the handicaps, he was only | a few dollars behind, anyhow. . * . Socialization of Medicine Dr. U. T., Brooklyn—tf you write to Dr. Benjamin Davidson, 1457 Union St., Brooklyn, N. Y., he'll probably give you the information you are ap- parently secking. He is the Secretary of the Medical League for Socialized Medicine. olay e | Medical Missionary to Soviet Ching M. S. R., Mills Hotel.—We are sure crised that a man of your evident telligence, should fall for such a phane Macauire, C. P., has noth- int to do with Red China. He is a missionary of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, whose purpose it is “to win back to the fold of Christ |the peoples of the Near East.” The Medical Board he was telling about the Catholic Medical Mission Board, which is affiliated with the Jesuits, not the Sor Tf you call some eve= ning after D. ™., we should be sled to show you some documents on th’s subject, and the one tha. inter- ests you most,